Case Studies > Joe Gibbs Racing and JobBOSS

Joe Gibbs Racing and JobBOSS

Company Size

1,000+

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

JobBOSS
KnowledgeSync Event Manager

Tech Stack

Inventory Management Software
Scheduling Software
Business Activity Monitoring Solution

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Inventory Management Systems
Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Procurement

Use Cases

Inventory Management
Manufacturing System Automation

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is one of the most successful professional stock car racing teams in the United States. The team is owned and operated by former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs and first joined NASCAR in 1991. Today, JGR boasts 13 different teams and four cars across NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series, as well as three cars in the Xfinity series. The team has an entire team of engineers, strategists, and managers who make victory possible on the ground. JGR builds everything in-house to keep their designs proprietary and continue winning races. Today, JGR has 560 employees who reside in a 400,000 square-foot race shop.

The Challenge

Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is a highly successful professional stock car racing team that builds everything in-house to keep their designs proprietary and continue winning races. However, as the team grew from one engineer and 15 total employees in 1991 to 560 employees operating 30 CNC machines in a 400,000 square-foot race shop, they faced challenges in managing inventory and scheduling. They needed a software solution to guide them on inventory and scheduling as they were previously tracking production on spreadsheets and manually shuffling folders to manage their schedule and inventory. The team also needed to accommodate emergency jobs, stop running out of parts, and generate orders automatically based on their production schedule.

The Solution

JGR implemented JobBOSS, a powerful technology that facilitated its rapid growth and continued to manufacture and race cars at an increasing level of excellence. JobBOSS provided real-time inventory management and scheduling, predicting when parts and supplies were running low based on production and demand. This allowed JGR to easily accommodate emergency jobs, stopped running out of parts, and could generate orders automatically based on their production schedule. Furthermore, JGR implemented KnowledgeSync Event Manager as a JobBOSS add-on module that acts as an invisible assistant. KnowledgeSync is a business activity monitoring solution that integrates with JobBOSS to give real-time visibility into key activities, information, and milestones.

Operational Impact

JGR was able to facilitate its rapid growth and continue to manufacture and race cars at an increasing level of excellence.
JGR was able to more easily accommodate emergency jobs, stopped running out of parts, and could generate orders automatically based on their production schedule.
With JobBOSS, JGR has increased their innovations in manufacturing while still cutting costs.
The team can innovate more quickly, save money and manufacture parts on the fly.
JobBOSS has played an integral role helping JGR continue to win races.

Quantitative Benefit

JGR had an outstanding year in 2015, winning 16 out of 39 race weekends, including a championship.
Within 2 weeks of implementing KnowledgeSync, George Skelton, Materials Manager, was able to implement more than 15 business critical alerts for the entire team to track data accurately, ensure POs are received, and send material reminders in real time.
JGR has 300-500 over-the-counter transactions every day, and cuts around 1000 POs a month.